War on US

War on US

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This policy regimen when put in place over a period of 44 years resulted in a 700% increase in the prison population of the United States of America. The prison population increased from 200 thousand to 2 Million 200 thousand between 1970 and 2014.

200,000

2,200,000

The Drug War. Ding ding ding!

Before the drug war, police only arrested you for violent behaviour and when they found illegal drugs they usually just threw them away. 

Yes there were racist arrests, but racism had always been there.

Since the drug war started 50 years ago we have lived in a hell world where police become ever more aggressive because possessing even a tiny amount of an illegal drug is a serious crime including prison time. This has led to greater aggression from police in general. They have become accustomed to violence, assaults on heavily armed ‘drug houses’.

This ‘drug war’ is the worst self inflicted wound in the history of the United States. It’s like a second civil war, but this time more against Black People, not to free them. White people too. I saw 20 years of my life disappear into chaos for a non-violent possession of a joints’ worth of weed charge.

The solution is to make all non-violent drug possession crimes misdemeanor, no jail crimes…
AND 

The FDA and the DEA must make the Poppy, Coca and Marijuana plants all legal to the public and their derivatives available to the medical community to prescribe to the public.

Most of the problems we face in these dis-United States stem from the insane ‘drug war’.

Just imagine where we would be with crime and chaos if we still tried to BAN ALCOHOL as we did in the 1930’s. Insane to even comprehend it.

In the name of countless innocent victims, but especially today, George Floyd.
Please God help us to end this insane war on… ourselves.